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Showing Original Post only (View all)Today is a perfect example of what is wrong with the media in this country. Today when Trump [View all]
tweeted out that 3000 people did not perish in Puerto Rico, and this was all a Democratic attempt to make him look bad, for the most part they leave it at that. It is as though this is a debatable point. IT ISN'T A DEBATABLE POINT, and the media DOES have a responsibility to make that clear. This is the kind of reporting they have been doing for some time now.
When Chuck Todd said in 2013 that it's not the media's job to correct the GOP's falsehoods on "Obamacare", that spelled out problem the problem loud and clear.
It is the responsibility of the media to separate fact from fiction. Is it any surprise that when trump calls most of the media fake news, and "the enemy of the people", they still continue to spew his blatant lies out without correcting things at the time.
Yes, during their "talk show panels", it is brought up, but that is too late. You need to do it when you are reporting it as news, and you know it is false.
In fact during those "talk show panels", they always present an opposing side, which again brings it into the realm of debatable.
When facts are made debatable, they become opinions